Grenfell Tower UK

(Picture Credit - The Independent)

Who needs terrorists?

They are redundant

When over 60 poor people

Can perish

In a raging inferno

Caused by their own council.

For years the resident action group

Were poo pooed by the authorities

With, “Don’t worry your pretty heads!”

When they warned about fire safety regulations

Being ignored

Just like them.

No sprinklers and only one fire escape

In a twenty four storey building.

Only last year the tower was refurbished

With cheap plastic cladding that’s

Banned in the USA.

Our prime minister has been accused

Of failing to show humanity

By only visiting the Emergency Services

To avoid the angry public.

All this has happened

Not in some God forsaken third world country

But in the fifth or sixth richest economy

In the world.

For sure, that all engulfing tower-fire

Has made the blood of the people

Boil.

Let’s hope this volcano does not erupt

Like the one that caused

The London Riots of 2011.

Let’s hope our administration

At all its levels

Learns something from this:

To Care for its People.

Paul Butters